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Flying fox

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Flying fox

This elaborate flying fox, with a hanging compartment, is carrying two people across the Buller River on the West Coast of the South Island.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Tyree Studio Collection (PAColl-3064)

Reference: G-931-10x8

by Tyree Brothers

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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How to cite this page

David Young, Rivers – The impact of European settlement, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/14696/flying-fox (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by David Young, published 1 March 2009.